...to U.S. readers. Generally, U.S. interest in Canadian news tends to focus on national security stories such as Omar Khadr, Maher Arar and the Toronto terrorism trial, he said, as well as business and trade issues. "They were quite interested in the...
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...chaplain at Guantánamo, who was accused of espionage and held in solitary confinement for 76 days before being released, and Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian telecommunications engineer, who was detained at Kennedy International Airport, then later...
...should be put behind him.” Thompson, of course, is the Deputy AG who signed off for Bush on extraditing innocent Canadian Maher Arar (right) to be tortured in Syria, in fairly blatant violation of US law. So, the let-bygones-be-bygones approach -- what's...
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...Space, Giving Voice, the new curriculum guide for B.C. schools, mistakenly teaches that Canada, and not America, deported Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was suspected of terrorism by US authorities, to Syria, where he was tortured. Murphy, however,...
...the new government shows a few scruples about using the State Secrets card more honorably then, like the pending suit by Maher Arar, an innocent Canadian tortured for a year in Syria, the civil suits alone could be catastrophic. We already know that...
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...permits the government to use immigration law as a disguise to send people to torture without regard for due process.” The Maher Arar case is one of the ugliest things the US has done, in addition to things like the Parhat case. Much US action here in...
...citizens, the Government of Canada announced a Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. On September 18, 2006, the Commissioner of the Inquiry, Justice Dennis O’Connor, cleared Arar of all terrorism...
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